It dismays me, Tory. I hear it all around me, even from people I love. The anger towards indigenous Australians is unfathomable. The lack of empathy is shocking. The sense that they are getting something others are not is bizarre. The unthinking racism is heartbreaking.

Geoff Kitney It began, I think, with John Howard, who - aided and abetted by the tabloids and the shock jocks - found enormous value in the politics of envy, of kicking down. It aroused the nation's worst instincts and we have never lost it.